gzip (or GNU zip) is a file format and corresponding utility for compressing files using the DEFLATE algorithm. The usual extension is .gz.
Questions tagged [gzip]
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How to GZIP all the files or a list of files from some path?
I know that gzip compress a file, but I would want to know. How to compress a list of files, each file in their own GZIP file ?
I need to use the list of a folder: ls log.2011
And for each file create a zipped file.
Any ideas ?
MadMad666
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Can't extract tar.gz file from Apache
I'm trying to do install manifoldcf on Ubuntu.
I downloaded the file - apache-manifoldcf-1.9-src.tar.gz - directly
from Apache (and I've tried different version as well with the same results).
Using tar xvf, tar zxvf, and tried both with -zxvf, and…
Rob50
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Gzip thousands of files efficiently in a single pass
I want to gzip the contents of a couple of thousand of tiny files into a single file. While I could do it with something like for file in $(find . -iname 'pattern'); do; cat $file | gzip - >> zipped.gz; done;, this achieves pretty bad compression on…
Nick
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How to revert a "gzip -r folder/" command?
I accidentally compressed all the files using the Gzip method which compresses all the files (not directories) individually, replacing the uncompressed files with the .gz compressed files.
How can I revert the operation I just did?
Mau
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Gzip -c over pipe matter?
I saw sometime 2 ways of writting: with and without -c
Do the 2 following case output the same and have equal speed ?
mysqldump -u root dbname | gzip > test.sql
mysqldump -u root dbname | gzip -c > test.sql
What about continous pipe?
mysqldump -u…
Thanh Trung
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Is there an older version of gzip that returns different/larger outputs?
I don't know how else to phrase this question, but I stumbled upon a file which I know from the header is gzipped (1F8B0800) but I am unable to recreate the file no matter what I try (including gzip on OSX, gzip on Linux, compress, and zlib). Even…
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